Architects and Architecture

Jesse Bennet performed the first cesarean section in America

Harman Blennerhassett married his niece Margaret Agnew

Wayne and army advanced into the Maumee Valley of Ohio

Battle of Fallen Timbers which defeated Ohio Valley Indians led to disuse of forts

Congress authorized the building of two armories for the manufacture of small arms

President George Washington received congressional approval to establish armories and arsenals throughout the nation

The Peter Tarr Furnace was established in present Hancock County, the first iron furnace west of the mountains

Blaker's Mill water-powered gristmill was constructed in Alderson

Kyashuta died in southwestern Pennsylvania

The Whiskey Rebellion occurred

The General Assembly of Virginia chartered the town of Point Pleasant

Joseph Ruffner purchased land from John Dickinson at Charleston

Dr. Joseph Spencer permanently settled Vienna

The Whiskey Rebellion ended

Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett settled on Blennerhassett Island

The Shrewsburys settled in the landt present Belle

An industrial site was built at Harpers Ferry

Samuel Hanway established the Fock Forge on Deckers Creek near Morgantown

The Davis furnace was in operation in Monongalia County

Joseph Tomlinson laid out lots named Elizabethtown

John Myers married Catherin Everhart

Coal was discovered on the Pocatalico River

Shepherdstown was named after Thomas Shepherd

Robert Gorrell founded Middlebourne

Gordon Battelle received a B.A. from Marietta Collegiate Institute (Marietta College)

John Carlile was admitted to the bar

Castlerock community began

90 furnaces produced a million bushels of salt annually

Eli Moore graduated from Jefferson College

William Howe given patent for the Howe truss system

G. W. Hammond demolished Ferdinando Fairfax's plantation, Shannon Hill, and built the present dwelling in Jefferson County

Fayette County's first census recorded 3,924 residents

Two communion cups from this year are among the antiques of the Forks-of-Cheat Baptist Church

John Hale moved to the Kanawha Valley

Mill Island was built as a private house

John H. Hall invented the first working interchangeable firearms manufacturing system for breechloading rifle at Hall's Rifle Works

Chester Hubbard graduated as valedictorian from Wesleyan University of Connecticut

The first church was built in the Jackson County area

Jackson County's population was 4,890

Construction of the James River & Kanawha Canal was completed between Richmond and Lynchburg

Joseph Lightburn moved to Lewis County

Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church was constructed

Mifflin Marsh began selling stogies to steamboat crews and passengers for four for a penny

John Chapman erected the first house in New Cumberland

All bridges on the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike were completed

William P. Rathbone and his sons purchased 12,000 acres at Burning Springs Run in Wirt County.

Census provided numerical proof that the white population of the Trans-Allegheny exceeded that of the rest of the state

Benjamin Stickley was licensed as a United Brethren evangelist

German members of the United Brethren in Baltimore migrated to Braxton County

The Rathbones purchased land at Burning Springs

Female Academy in Union (Monroe County) started

Locust Hill was built by Lucy Elizabeth Washington

The Wine family first settled in Braxton County

The Blue Sulphur Springs resort property was sold to the Western Virginia Baptist Association

John Brown met in Chatham, Ontario, with supporters to plan for armed insurrection of slaves

Martin Delany aided John Brown in convening the Chatham Convention

Henry Gassaway Davis left the B&O

Delta Tau Delta was founded at Bethany College

Weston College was chartered

Marshall College was established from Marshall Academy

George Imboden was admitted to the bar

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

Margery Lewis Kenna moved her family to Missouri after the shooting of her husband

General Assembly amended the act of incorporation

Presbyterians established the Woodburn Female Seminary in Morgantown

Z. D. Ramsdell relocated to Ceredo.

The second courthouse at Ripley was built

Robert Simmons had fathered nine children

Spencer was chartered

The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike opened

McDowell County seat was at Perryville

Weston was chosen for the site of Virginia's third mental hospital

Construction began on Weston State Hospital

Lewis William Washington became John Brown's hostage at Harpers Ferry

The first West Virginia legislature adopted the motto "Montani Semper Liberi," "Mountaineers are always free"

Legislature passed West Virginia's first general banking law

The present building of Malden's African Zion Baptist Church began after contributions of land, money and materials by Gen. Lewis Ruffner

West Virginia's new constitution continued the education of black children in segregation

Blacks began forming groups in response to inequality.

Joseph Beury and wife moved to New River

Alexander Boteler ran unsuccessfully for Congress

Brickyard Bend (New Cumberland) shipped 11 million bricks via Ohio River

West Virginia's new constitution abandons the township system and reverts back to the Virginia county government system

Democrats gained political supremacy after voting restrictions on former Confederates ceased

Joseph Diss Debar supported the Liberal Republicans to come to terms with the ex-Confederates

Anne Dudley toured New England with Harpers Ferry Singers to raise funds for Myrtle Hall

New constitution expanded support of public education

New constitution changed elections to two-year cycle

Secretary of State was made an appointed office

Provisions of the Flick Amendment was added to the state constitution

John P. Hale purchased Fort Lee's original lot and blockhouse in Charleston

Glenville State College began as branch of the State Normal School

Noah Speer started the Hancock Works

The second courthouse was completed in Glenville

Vote by citizens brought the Grant County seat permanently to Petersburg

John Hale built the Hale House hotel in Charleston

Legislature faced the task of modifying laws to conform to the newly adopted constitution

West Virginia Legislature grew to 89 persons

Weston's first public school building was erected

The McDowell County seat was located at Peeryville (now English)

The town of Milton was laid out

The hamlet of Mud in Lincoln County, an unincorporated community, said to have been founded

Construction began on more refineries in Parkersburg

Normal schools were established in Glenville, Athens, and Shepherdstown

Pence Springs was developed as a resort.

In Charleston, the Presbyterian Church (Southern) and the Kanawha Presbyterian Church (Northern) split.

Voters in Greenbrier Country elected Samuel Price as their representative to the West Virginia constitutional convention.

Legislature designated Shepherd as one of the state's normal schools

Robert Simmons was a delegate to the Republican national convention

The cave at Sinks of Gandy was described by David Hunter Strother

The Universalist Meeting House at Fork Ridge in Marshall County erected an additional larger building

Charles Ward began operating his own pipe and fittings business

The Western Maryland Railway extended to Hagerstown

I.C. White earned an undergraduate degree at Agricultural College of West Virginia (WVU)

Waitman Willey spoke eloquently for suffrage for African-Americans

Thomas Anshutz painted The Ironworkers' Noontime

Thomas Anshutz painted Ironworkers' Noontime

Raleigh County Index established by Edwin Prince

Joseph Beury and brothers began to buy tracts of coal land

Preston County Brookside Resort was built

Jimmy D. Johnson established water-powered mill at Brush Creek Falls

William Edwin Chilton passed the bar

The International Sunday School Association was organized in West Virginia

U.S Census published the first statistical compilation on West Virginia forests

Two-thirds of West Virginia still covered by old forest

Fairmont State had more students than any normal school

Post No. 1 of Guard Army of the Republic was organized in Martinsburg

Devil Anse Hatfield led the armed party rescuing Johnse Hatfield from the brothers of Rose Anna McCoy

Hinton was incorporated

Reported only 250 people lived in Hollidays Cove

Jedediah Hotchkiss began publishing a monthly magazine, The Virginias: a Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia

Census listed 8 Irish families totaling 43 persons occupying Irish Mountain

Jews lived in most of the developed areas of the state

George Latham was appointed as supervisor of the census for West Virginia's First District

William Leigh began studying under Hugh Newell at Maryland Institute

William MacCorkle was elected prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County

Hu Maxwell graduated from Weston Academy

John McGraw entered the practice of law

Agnes Reeves Greer was born

Orthodox Christians from Russia, Greece and Ottoman Empire began to settle in coalfields of West Virginia

St. Mary Carpatho-Russian Orthodox church was founded in Bluefield

There were 400 sawmills in West Virginia

Nathan Scott was elected to the Wheeling City Council

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Wheeling was erected by the Soldiers Aid Society

West Virginia's first telephone exchange was placed in service in Wheeling

The Funkhouser barn was built in Hardy County

Charles Ward began working full time at his own business

The National Guard was activated for service in areas of labor unrest, specifically to quell a strike of coal miners at Hawks Nest

Construction began at a point on the B&O Railway

The mental hospital at Weston was completed

Wheeling had 30,737 people

Emanuel Wilson was elected speaker of the House of Delegates

Groundbreaking for the west wing of the State Capitol in Charleston

Small group of miners at Montgomery formed the Black Lung Association

Alderson-Broaddus College (now University) established the first baccalaureate physician assistant program in the country

Greenbrier Valley Airport, Lewisburg, built

Another 36 acres was added to Bear Rock Lakes

Interstate 81 was completed

UMWA President Tommy Boyle supported a campaign for black lung recognition at the state level

A bombing rocked the physical education building and administration at Bluefield State College (now University), briefly closing the school

Ivor Boiarsky was elected speaker of the House of Delegates

J. Lawrence Smith wrote The Potomac Naturalist

Connie Smith began concentrating on gospel music

William "Wally" Barron was released from prison

Birch River was included in the State Natural Streams Preservation Act

James Rowley served as interim president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Bretz coke ovens and mining plant were placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Shelley Moore Capito earned B.S. from Duke University

City National Bank assets at $37.4 million

Tim Pyles hired by the Bureau of Vocational Education to revitalize the crafts education program

Elvis Presley stayed in Daniel Boone Hotel when visiting Charleston

Little Jimmy Dickens rejoined the Grand Ole Opry

Congress designated the Dolly Sods Wilderness and Scenic Area

Easton Roller Mill was surveyed by the Historic American Engineering Record